Probabilistic linkage of Victorian injury data records
Research utilising the available mass databases of real world road crashes compiled by Police, government and insurers in Victoria provides much useful information for injury prevention research purposes. The record linkage of these datasets and hospital injury records has the potential to maximise the use of available data by researchers to extend the understanding of the causes, outcomes and costs of road traffic and other injuries. This project explored the feasibility of linking Police-reported motor vehicle crash, Transport Accident Commission (TAC) insurance, in-depth crash data and hospital injury datasets using probabilistic linking routines. It was found that the probabilistic linkage of hospital data to other injury datasets was not feasible without identifying information, however the probabilistic linkage of Police and TAC data did identify potential alternative measures of serious injury that could be used for road safety research.
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Authors:
- D'Elia, A
- Newstead, S
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- Publication Date: 2009-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 10p
- Monograph Title: 2009 Australian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 November 2009, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash analysis; Data analysis; Databases; Highway safety; Injury severity
- Uncontrolled Terms: Road safety (human factors)
- Geographic Terms: Victoria
- ATRI Terms: Crash analysis; Data analysis; Database; Injury severity; Road safety
- Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01381919
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- ISBN: 9781921692260
- Files: ATRI
- Created Date: Aug 22 2012 12:54PM